Three-year-old girl dies after being thrown from 7th floor window
Detectives investigating why man committed ‘such a horrific act’, police spokesperson says
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Your support makes all the difference.A three-year-old girl has died after her father’s friend allegedly hurled her from the seventh floor of a residential building in Mumbai, India.
Police officers said the victim, named in Indian newspapers as Shanaya Hathiramani, was taken immediately to a local hospital, where she died shortly afterwards.
She was thrown from a window in the Ashoka apartment building in Mumbai’s Colaba area.
Local media reports named the suspect as Anil Chugani, a childhood friend of the three-year-old’s father.
The 45-year-old was arrested at the scene and officers have filed a murder case against him.
“One accused threw his friend’s daughter from an apartment in Colaba around 7:30 pm [on Saturday],” a Mumbai police spokesperson said.
“The investigation is underway. We are finding out details as to why he committed such a horrific act.”
The two men reportedly lived in adjacent buildings and would often socialise in their homes.
The victim had been playing in Mr Chugani’s flat with her twin sister and brother when she was thrown, according to the Mumbai Mirror.
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